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US 4551 FINDERS Currently running: 1.7.2.6 Tired of incompetent Administrators? Tired of unstable servers? Tired of hackers? Well, we are too! So, my friends and I finally decided to make a server together and the results have been great. No longer do we have to worry about admins not doing their jobs, or hackers ruining the fun for everyone, because we've seen it all and have prepared the server accordingly. We listen to our players and act as quickly as possible on every issue worth addressing. In fact we encourage people to come into teamspeak and talk to us (the admins) to address concerns or just offer suggestions for updates to the server. (Teamspeak info is in server name and announced in game.) As a result, of all this, we already have small tight nit groups forming. ------------------------------------- Features: *Active and competent admins, who address and fix issues as quickly as possible. *Stable server, vehicles and tents save just fine and spawns work properly. *Automatic Anti hacking and Custom Anti hacking software. *Hive is backed up automatically. So, for example, if a hacker "nukes" the server we just hit the "rollback button" and all your gear, vehicles, and the entire server go back to like it never happened. *Sidechat (text only) voice is not allowed/tolerated. *Veteran mode with third person, but no crosshairs. (Don't let that discourage you newbies, you can still use waypoints on the map) *50 player count max. *35 max vehicle count, which include vehicles not seen on the dayz hive like the suv and datsuni. We feel the 35 vehicles is enough of an increase from normal to make vehicles a little more accessible without causing major imbalance. *Deathmessages: xxx was killed by yyy. (This is still under testing) *Crossbow starting weapon. *Server location: Kansas, USA *No Ghosting (players logging then moving on another server, logging back into the server you are on, and possibly gaining a tactical advantage) because of being a private hive of course. *Better Sense of Persistance than on public hive servers. ------------------------------------- All of the above is subject to change. Check back here to see server online/offline status. We encourage you to try us out, and may you find what you are looking for at the Finders.

Hmm not sure based on what you told me, could try looking it up for yourself, I'm sure you'll find others. Our server does kick people automatically for clicking on the server controls button. (The part where you can vote to kick, vote for restart, and use admin controls etc.) but it never bans you, just rejoin the server. It sounds like you might have a problem with something that doesn't have to do with the server though. Just speculating.

When did this happen (Day, time), and do you know which admin banned you? Also, please give me the names you and your brother used in game. Just pm it to me and I'll make sure to get it sorted out. If it's how you said, then you will be unbanned.

Just launch dayz through commander without joining a server and search for us through there. Just Type: Finders and you should see it.

Thanks for informing us, we'll look into it, when we get the chance. We banned someone for the same name earlier.

Server is running is alive and well still, if you were away during our downtime, feel free to return.

We'll keep it in mind and appreciate all the support, it's what has kept us going.

Finder's coming back online this week. Have had issues with the backups again, but mostly the problem is to resolve personal/professional business first. Part of it is we do not have enough admins...yet. Sincerely, apologize for the wait, but don't worry we will be back soon.

Being kicked is usually because of using voice in side chat. Try joining the server again and if you are not banned, then that was most likely the reason. You, were not however, kicked, "for no apparent reason."

If you and your friends would have approached this situation more politely and professionally, and with a better argument than what you present in this post, then we would have considered unbanning you, but that's gone out the window.

First, Tonacriid, here's the stream we had on the server. http://www.twitch.tv/hadouke2050 Second, flavalicious, keep going into teamspeak and contacting an admin, please remind us, we have a lot on our plate right now. Sorry, it wasn't sorted out sooner, but just contact us again and we'll work it out. Third, agrimm1, Those two guys with the Suvs were suspected of using ESP to find them, as they had not been on the server very long before finding and repairing them and stole 2 military offroads like what your link says they did. Further investigation made it highly likely they had esp, when one of the group shot through obstacles that he could clearly not see through at another person who was behind cover. That's all the evidence I or any of our admins need, we don't need logs in that situation, especially when esp does not show up in normal logs. This is a private server, which means we escape all the "you don't have screenshots, logs, etc" so you can't ban us. Actually yes we can. It's one reason we've been so effective in getting rid of hackers on our server. We realize that possibly only one was highly likely using hacks. I say highly likely, because we cannot 100% know without any shadow of a doubt that they were not hacking, but it was enough to "swing the ban hammer." However, all three of you are obviously close friends and didn't just meet each other in game, so all three were banned to be safe. It's not a perfect system, and usually we don't do that, I don't like to ban by association, but when you have tight nit groups like clans coming in and you have even one of their members hacking, its too much of a security risk to let the rest stay. It's the way we chose to run the server. Your friends are not global banned, just banned from the Finders private hive. No reason to badmouth us as we are doing our jobs as best as we can with what we have to work with. One option is to make your own server and run it the way you want. If our server is so "laggy and full of hackers" as that post states, then it should be a blessing that you gentlemen are banned, you don't have to come back to the "shitty" server with "admin abuse." (If this is not the same situation that your ban took place and/or it took place yesterday, then you want to talk to admin Whyfish, who you can contact in teamspeak.)

And its been fixed =)

Lingor does tend to have less whiney noobs. I agree with that, and it's a nice way to do something different from chernarus, but you can't just wait for everyone to get all the gear they want then say, "Ok let's fight now, cause its fair." In order to survive, you want to have an unfair advantage. Also, lingor gets just as many hackers as chernarus, I even found a Us server that has a hacking admin, with a clan he supported that had hackers too. I'm also not sure what you mean about more functionality, but don't mislead other players, lingor can be very fun and I do like it, but it has more issues than chernarus does. There are many vehicles, buildings, and spawns all over the map, which causes the server to become unstable rather quickly. As a result, it can and does slow down the server considerably, which increases load times significantly. Also, the map is smaller, and the way the buildings and terrain are situated in lingor, does not allow, any good spots to hide vehicles or tents, which isn't a big problem, because of the many spawns, including military, around the map. What ends up happening is it turns into more of a pvp style map, where you encounter players more often, which can be good or bad depending on who you are. All in all, I still really do like lingor, and if server restarts are done more often, and it has good admins, then it helps a lingor server out considerably. So, in response to this thread, when it comes down to it, I can think of dayz without lingor, but I cannot think of dayz without chernarus. It's also why I host it on a private hive, but if you are worried about players on your server, it won't matter which you choose, people will come to play regardless. The Finders private hive

Server online. Now featuring crossbow starting weapon, instead of crowbar.

Server offline. Only small changes this time, not more than 30 minutes.

Server Online. All the issues seem to be fixed. Now working on a website that will track every ones stats. So, you can see how well you've done over the course of all your lives and/or your current one. Still experimenting with it, but will try to get it up soon as long as something more important to do on the server itself doesn't pop up, because the server comes first before other add ons and doodads.

I really do appreciate people's patience and continued support despite the setbacks. I hope you know I am working hard to resolve all the issues. I know it must be frustrating on the weekend not having the amount of playtime that you would want, but this is just "server growing pains" and it won't be like this all the time.

Server down for maintenance.

Server back online. Again, apologize for the wait.

Ok, just running tests to make sure everything is working right and updating server to new arma beta patch. If all that goes well, then we'll be online soon.

I don't expect you to just wait there hitting refresh for the server to come back up. I appreciate that you guys like it, but I will let you know as soon as it is up.

All the major work is done, we did a complete "overhaul" of sorts to the server. However, we still need to make sure the backups work properly, before it goes back online. That said, we didn't anticipate it would be down this long, so I really do apologize, but it will be up as soon as possible.

Server is currently down for maintenance and upgrades, will be back online as soon as possible.

Sorry, we can't just up and move the server, not as simple as you might think. We support up to 300ms, and though 230 is not preferable, it is still playable. But, I understand your hesitation on playing in our server.

Glad you asked. First, we are not currently requiring a password for the server, because it does not completely protect against hackers, but just delays players playing on our server by making them jump through a hoop. But, this does not mean we are not willing to change it, we might very well password protect in the near future, just depends on players and actions that take place. Second, the automatic anti hack is exactly that, automatic system that detects and bans hackers. The custom side is what we have come up with ourselves as well as cooperation with other admins to detect hacking activity. I can't go into details, because we are constantly playing a "game" with the hackers and they could use this to their advantage. However, it is suffice to say that when both our admins and software are in place, it severely hampers hackers efforts. To support this, we have banned over 300 GUIDs and have several hundred more added from the community ban list and other trusted sources. Over the past week, we have seen hackers numbers on our server severely decrease. We are not sure to the actual cause(s) but it's made our job easier the past few days. Today, we have seen only one hacker so far and our system detected him right away and he/she was promptly banned, and no damage to the server was done. Overnight, we had another 3 hackers who tried very hard to go undetected, but we still got them. But, even if they did manage to wreak havoc on the server, we have backups running 24/7 and we can rollback the server anywhere to a few minutes to a few hours if need be. The reason why we are so effective in detecting and banning hackers is because of personal experience of an admin we used to be friends with that was hacking under our nose for quite some time. He owned a server and we were assistant administrators, but he kept lying to our faces that he wasn't doing any sort of scripting/hacking, until we finally found out the truth. http://dayzmod.com/f.../page__hl__us40 and here's another thread from someone else: http://dayzmod.com/f...s40#entry669489 That's only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to how much we have had to deal with hackers, and this was one of the big motivators for creating our own server. So to answer your question about what makes us better than public servers cheat measures: -We use software that most do not put in place -We have extensive experience -Always evolving our detection techniques whenever possible -And most importantly we care a great deal about the players experience You will also notice that there is a ridiculous amount of nonsense that goes on around bans in public hives, just read a couple threads in the Cheat reporting part of the forum and you know what I mean. By having a private hive we have eliminated all that crap and can ban people without any fear, so we can concentrate on other more important matters, than "omg you don't have video or picture of exact moment of hacking." In short, having competent admins, just makes a huge difference by itself, instead of the half-assed run servers that make up a majority of servers out there.